"for her work in both ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1985) and ""The Corn is Green"" (1985). Her appearances on stage in ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1982), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1987), ""Uncle Vanya"" (1988), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1996), ""Entertaining Mr Sloane"" (2009) and ""Good People"" (2014) also earned her Olivier nominations. Staunton has been nominated for a total of 13 Olivier Awards. Staunton drew critical acclaim for her performance in the title role in the 2004 film ""Vera Drake"", for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for"
"""with a piercingly powerful performance by Imelda Staunton, ""Vera Drake"" brings teeming humanity to the controversial subject of abortion."" The film has attracted some criticism from those who worked in midwifery during the 1950s. The chief concern is the method of abortion used by Vera Drake in the film. This involves a Higginson bulb syringe used to introduce a warm, dilute solution of carbolic soap and an unspecified liquid disinfectant into the woman's uterus. This method is claimed by Jennifer Worth, a nurse and midwife in the 1950s and 1960s, to be invariably fatal. She called the film itself ""dangerous"","
"to patients both physically and mentally. At the time Weber made the film, 'back alley' and 'illegal' abortions were prevalent and quite often resulted in destroying women's ability to have future children. It is left clear at the film's end Mrs. Walton can no longer have children because her body is damaged by a long-term overindulgence in abortions. The film was written by Lucy Payton, Franklin Hall, Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. No director is credited. Future star Mary MacLaren made her debut in this film playing the Walton's younger maid. Shooting took place in the Los Angeles area, and"
"consulting with her roommate (Jada Pinkett), she makes an appointment with Dr. Beth Thompson (Cher). However, the abortion takes place during a violent protest, and an anti-abortion protester (Matthew Lillard) walks in on the operation and shoots Dr. Thompson. 1952 segment: 1974 segment: 1996 segment: As executive producer, Moore spent seven years trying to get the film made, until the project was eventually greenlit by HBO. HBO vice president Colin Callender said ""I don't believe there's a studio in the world that would finance this picture"" and praised Moore and Cher for having the courage to use their celebrity to"
"Blessed (2004 film) Blessed is a 2004 British-Romanian horror film directed by Simon Fellows starring Heather Graham and James Purefoy. The Howards are a young married couple living in New York. Craig (James Purefoy), an unpublished writer, and Samantha (Heather Graham), a school teacher, are desperate to have a baby. Their hopes are dashed when Samantha is diagnosed as infertile and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Just when it seems their dreams are impossible, the couple are given the opportunity to receive free treatments from a new, and relatively unheard of, fertility"
"death, initially killing prostitutes and then attacking single women, dumping their bodies on the hill. The Hillside Strangler (film) The Hillside Strangler is a 2004 crime horror film directed by Chuck Parello and written by Stephen Johnston, based on the true story of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler serial killers. The film stars C. Thomas Howell as Bianchi and Nicholas Turturro as Buono. At the end of the 70s, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi (C. Thomas Howell) lives with his mother Frances (Roz Witt) and is obsessed with joining the police force. When his application is refused,"
"of feminism and exposes the myriad of issues, approaches, organizations, and individuals that are the lifeblood of the movement. Currently these boot camps are the largest feminist immersion programs in the country. In 2004, Baumgardner created the ""I Had an Abortion"" project to encourage women (and men) to ""come out"" about their procedures. The campaign included t-shirts that said ""I had an abortion,"" a film (made with Gillian Aldrich) documenting women's stories of abortion, a book, and a photo exhibit. The film features ten different women—one of which being famous feminist Gloria Steinem—openly speaking about their abortion experiences spanning over"
"straight hair has begun to turn stringy, and she rarely wears makeup, but beneath her sallow skin and dead eyes, you can glimpse the carefree, pretty, slightly hip party girl she once must have been."" Down to the Bone (film) Down to the Bone is a 2004 American independent drama film, directed by Debra Granik and written by Granik and Richard Lieske. It stars Vera Farmiga, who received a Best Actress Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role as the drug addicted Irene. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 15, 2004, where"
"Down to the Bone (film) Down to the Bone is a 2004 American independent drama film, directed by Debra Granik and written by Granik and Richard Lieske. It stars Vera Farmiga, who received a Best Actress Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role as the drug addicted Irene. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 15, 2004, where it won the Director's Award (Granik) and the Special Jury Prize for Acting (Farmiga). The film received a limited release in the United States on November 25, 2005. Irene Morrison (Vera Farmiga), a working class"
"International Emmy Award for Best Actress, while her roles in ""Return to Cranford"" (2009) and ""The Girl"" (2012) earned her BAFTA TV Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. For the latter, she was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Staunton was born in Archway, North London, the only child of Bridie (née McNicholas), a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a road-worker and labourer. The family lived over Staunton's mother's salon. Her parents were first-generation Catholic immigrants from County Mayo, Ireland; her father from Ballyvary and her mother from Bohola. Staunton's"
"Imelda Staunton Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, (born 9 January 1956) is an English stage and screen actress. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in the 1970s before appearing in seasons at various theatres in the UK. Staunton has since performed in a variety of plays and musicals in London, winning four Olivier Awards; three for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles as the Baker's Wife in ""Into the Woods"" (1991), Mrs. Lovett in """" (2013) and Mama Rose in ""Gypsy"" (2016), and one for Best Supporting Performance"
"and now it has hold of one of Angela's daughters. The all-star cast includes Alan Ruck as Angela's husband and Mexican actor/singer Alfonso Herrera and British actor Ben Daniels as exorcism-performing priests, as well as Sharon Gless in a recurring role as Chris MacNeil (the Ellen Burstyn role in the feature film). Davis is a supporter of the Women's Sports Foundation and an advocate for Title IX, an Act of Congress focusing on equality in sports opportunities, now expanded to prohibit gender discrimination in United States' educational institutions. In 2004, while watching children's television programs and videos with her daughter,"
"after turning it in, and the people who fired him recut the film into a ""rom-com with dwarves"". Tiptoes Tiptoes (also known as Tiny Tiptoes) is a 2003 film directed by Matthew Bright and starring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale, Patricia Arquette and Gary Oldman. The film was screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. It was never released theatrically in the United States and it instead went straight to DVD. Carol (Beckinsale)—a talented painter and independent woman—falls in love with Steven (McConaughey) without knowing much about him other than he is the perfect man. But when Carol finds herself pregnant"
"seeking psychiatric counseling, a troubled woman mistakenly enters a tax accountant's office, and an unusual relationship develops. Paramount Pictures (the parent studio of Paramount Vantage/Classics) was developing a comedic Hollywood remake of the film, with Hilary Swank attached to star and Kelly Fremon Craig writing the script. Intimate Strangers (2004 film) Intimate Strangers () is a 2004 French film directed by Patrice Leconte. It was shown in Competition at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival. Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited U.S. theatrical release on July 30, 2004; this film went"
"to foster her, much to ire of their neighbour, Donald Fisher (Norman Coburn). Pippa takes a part-time job at Ailsa Hogan's (Judy Nunn) general store and later discovers she is pregnant, despite Tom having a vasectomy. This is a concern as Pippa had rheumatic fever as a child, it weakened her heart and doctors warned her that she should not have children. Danny visits for ANZAC Day as he and Tom both served in the Vietnam War. He asks Pippa to help him commit suicide as he was left in a wheelchair from the war, which she refuses. Danny later"
"a night of intense debate about the past and their future, the couple begins garnering support to fight a new abortion bill. However, their rekindled zeal is soon complicated by an unexpected pregnancy. The film was released on DVD by Facets Multi-Media in 2008. Wendy Ellen Everett and Axel Goodbody, the editors of ""Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema"", wrote that this film ""became a cult film in the German feminist movement."" The film's main actress and actor won the Deutscher Filmpreis (Filmband in Gold) in 1975 and it was recently called one of Sanders-Brahms' best films by"
"evidence of her son's existence. The film was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures and was released in the United States and Canada on September 24, 2004. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) believes that her son Sam (Christopher Kovaleski) died 14 months ago in a plane crash, but her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards) tells her that she's delusional and that they have never had a son. Her friend Eliot (Jessica Hecht) doesn't appear to believe in Sam's existence despite her closeness to him. Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise) tells her that Sam was merely a figment of her imagination and that"
"Amelia, Clara and the girl watch their unemployed men self-destruct one by one under the grinding conditions of the Depression. Impregnated by her lover Butch, the girl secretly defies his demand that she get an abortion, hoping that the money from a bank robbery will enable them to get married. However, Butch and three other men are shot and killed during the crime, and the girl, dependent on state assistance during her pregnancy, is forced into a relief maternity home where sterilization after delivery is routine. Amelia rescues the girl before she has her baby, but fails to save Clara"
"her in Albert Square. Livid, Frank smashes up the statue and confronts Taylor, further alienating Diane. Diane develops a friendship with Mark Fowler (Todd Carty) when he returns to his family home in 1990, and enlists his help to find Disa, who is heavily pregnant and living in ""Cardboard City"". Disa refuses their help initially; after she gives birth, she abandons the child on Diane's doorstep on Christmas Day. Diane and Mark care for the baby in secret until they find Disa and persuade her to come home with them. Diane takes care of them and attempts to help Disa"
"Imelda Staunton, a year after her Academy Award-nominated performance in ""Vera Drake"", appears in the film as Ambassador Cochran. She explained to the BBC's Mark Lawson that she filmed for two days, but that Seagal did not film any reverses with her, resulting in her filming all her scenes with Seagal's stand-in and a Romanian film student, who would read Seagal's dialogue off-camera. She claims she did the film for money, and as a chance to portray a character with an American Accent. David Johnson of DVD Verdict called the film ""a generic action film with an uninvolving plot, stilted"
"outing as a director, conducted a seven-month search to find the appropriate young lead opposite Fonda, with the proviso that in addition to having ""training and dedication"", she must be ""an actress, not a starlet"". The highly dramatic story of two unmarried college students, Eddie and Pam, faced with an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy provided numerous opportunities for heated confrontations and provocative (for 1964) contemplation of abortion. A number of critics commended Hugueny on her acting skills, but few had more than tepid words for the film. Only twenty years old at the time of the film's release, Hugueny was"
"mother and daughter imprisoned at the Walker Point Center for seeking an abortion outside of the United States. Although Beverly (Betty Buckley) and Allison (Ali Thomas) are the main focus, the journalist (Carolyn McCormick) also interviews numerous people with varying viewpoints discussing the ramifications of the Goldring case and abortion in general in 2042 society. Allison Goldring, an upper-class, white college student, becomes pregnant from her boyfriend Jeremy Tanner (Steve Zahn). After discussing her options with both Tanner and her family, she makes the decision to travel abroad to terminate the pregnancy, as abortion is prosecuted as ""fetal murder"" in"
"Alien Resurrection Alien Resurrection (also known as Alien 4) is a 1997 American science-fiction action horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Joss Whedon, and starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. It is the fourth installment in the ""Alien"" film series, and the final installment in the original series. It was filmed at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California. Set 200 years after the preceding installment ""Alien 3"" (1992), Ellen Ripley is cloned and an Alien queen (Tom Woodruff Jr.) is surgically removed from her body. The United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study"
"as she bled out after improperly administering the drug. The other was initially arrested on suspicion of having a termination, but is convicted of using an IUD, which is also illegal. Her descriptions of how she obtained the ""uudee"" suggest that she was also in a potentially dangerous medical situation. African American district attorney Andrea Murdoch (Iona Morris) discovers what the Goldrings have done and prosecutes them under the new law, in large part because they are exactly the type of women targeted by the law. The criminal procedures show that doctor-patient confidentiality is no longer guaranteed. Murdoch's motivations are"
"begins in 1944 with John Christie murdering his neighbour Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a ""special mixture"", then incapacitates her with Town Gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He buries her in his flat block's communal garden, where a dog uncovers one of his previous victims. In 1949, Tim and Beryl Evans move into 10 Rillington Place, west London, with their infant daughter Geraldine. Beryl is pregnant again and attempts an abortion by taking some pills. When"
"negative critical reaction, but was a modest commercial success, reaching number two in the United States box office behind Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore's ""50 First Dates"". On July 20, 2004, it was released on VHS and DVD. Mary Elizabeth ""Lola"" Steppe (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who grew up in New York City and wants desperately to be a famous Broadway actress. She narrates the story. Much to her annoyance, she moves with her family to the suburbs of Dellwood, New Jersey, but she confidently tells the audience, ""A legend is about to be born. That legend would"
"that the ""pretentious film merely focused on its own solemn and pompous style"". Soba (film) Soba is a 2004 independent drama/crime film and the directional debut from Mexican filmmaker Alan Coton, who also wrote the script. It stars newcomer Claudia Soberón and Dagoberto Gama. Justina, a fifteen-year-old girl, lives with her mother and stepfather in a suburb of Mexico City. On the verge of sexual awakening, she starts flirting with her stepfather, provoking the murder of both her parents. She runs away from home, temporarily insane, wearing nothing but her nightgown. Ivan, a police detective who practices torture as a"
"Birth (film) Birth is a 2004 American drama film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston and Cameron Bright. The film follows Anna (Kidman), who becomes convinced that her deceased husband, Sean, has been reincarnated as a 10-year-old boy. Despite praise for Kidman's acting and Glazer's direction, ""Birth"" received mixed reviews. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the film's worldwide box office earnings total was US$23,925,492. Sean and Anna are a married couple living in New York City. While scenes of Central Park are shown on screen, Sean is heard lecturing to an unseen audience, explaining that"
"causes, including V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the off-Broadway hit ""The Vagina Monologues"", of which she is an honorary chairperson. She was at the first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation. In 2001, she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University in Atlanta to help prevent adolescent pregnancy through training and program development. On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juárez, with Sally Field, Eve Ensler and other"
"Best Actress Award for Michelle Krusiec at the 2005 Golden Horse Film Festival, and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film in Limited Release at the 2006 GLAAD Media Awards. Out of these, it won the Viewer's Choice Award at the 2005 Golden Horse Film Festival. Saving Face (2004 film) Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Alice Wu. The film focuses on Wilhelmina, a young Chinese-American surgeon; her unwed, pregnant mother; and her dancer girlfriend. The name itself is a reference to the pan-East Asian social concept of face. Wilhelmina (""Wil""), a successful young"
"living in Toronto, Canada. Burton, now living and working as the chief taxidermist at a Museum of Natural History, is searching for a centerpiece display for an exhibit in his Hall of Contagion. He comes up with the idea of featuring AIDS and the Patient Zero hypothesis. Accepting the popular belief that Zero introduced the virus to North America, Burton sets out to collect video footage from those who knew Zero to support the hypothesis. When Zero's doctor (Brenda Kamino), mother (Charlotte Boisjoli) and former airline colleague Mary (Dianne Heatherington), who is now with ACT UP, all refuse to demonize"
"campaign for the bill, a secret from her college days emerges: during a nationally televised interview, she admits that she was raped in college and that her rapist, Dalton McGinnis (Peter Bradbury), is now a high-ranking general. (She had earlier had an uncomfortable encounter with McGinnis at a White House dinner, during which she had told Frank what the general had done to her.) She also admits to having aborted a pregnancy that she claims was the result of the rape; it is later revealed that she in fact aborted Frank's child, with his consent. She then converts the focus"
"to the Bone"" (2004), ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (2004), ""The Departed"" (2006), ""Running Scared"" (2006), ""Joshua"" (2007), ""The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"" (2008), ""Orphan"" (2009), ""Up in the Air"" (2009), ""Source Code"" (2011), ""Safe House"" (2012), ""The Conjuring"" (2013), ""The Conjuring 2"" (2016), and ""The Commuter"" (2018). Farmiga won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in ""Down to the Bone"" (2004). She won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for ""The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"" (2008). Her most"